Does anyone know any facts on britain during this time, but not including the war

1906 Labour Party formed Free school meals for poor children Launching of HMS Dreadnought, first turbine-driven battleship Freud and Jung begin their association San Francisco earthquake and fire: 400 dead Amundsen traverses the north-west passage HW Fowler The King's English

1907 School medical system begins New Zealand becomes a Dominion Imperial College, London, is established First airship flies over London Pavlov begins his studies on conditioned reflexes Lumiere develops a process for colour photography Diaghilev begins to popularise ballet First 'Cubist' exhibition in Paris Mahler Symphony No.8

1908 Coal Mines Regulation Act in Britain limits men to an eight hour day Separate courts for juveniles established in Britain Lord Baden-Powell starts the Boy Scout movement First 'Model T' Ford Grahame The Wind in the Willows

1909 Jan 1: Old Age Pensions Act came into force Jul 25: Bleriot flies across the Channel (36 minutes, Calais to Dover) Beveridge Report prompts creation of labour Exchanges Peary reaches the north pole First commercial manufacture of Bakelite – start of the plastic age

1910 Constitutional crisis in Britain Railway strike and coal strikes in Britain Union of South Africa formed – Botha first Prime Minister May 6: Edward VII dies – George V king Crippen caught by radio telegraphy Madame Curie isolates radium Halley's comet reappears Tango becomes popular in North America and Europe Stravinsky The Fire Bird

1911 Parliament Act in Britain reduces the power of the House of Lords British MPs receive a salary Apr 2 Census: Pop. E&W 36M, Scot 4.6M, NI 1.25M Dec 14: National Insurance in Britain First British Official Secrets Act Standard Oil in USA broken up into 33 companies Rutherford: theory of atomic structures Amundsen reaches the south pole GK Chesterton The Innocence of Father Brown Irving Berlin Alexander's Rag-time Band 1911-1912 Strikes by seamen, dock and transport workers

1912 Irish Home Rule crisis grows in Britain Apr 14: The 'unsinkable' Titanic sinks on maiden voyage – loss of 1,513 lives Britain nationalises the telephone system Daily Herald founded – lasts until 1964 Royal Flying Corps (later the RAF) founded in Britain Captain Scott's last expedition – he and his team die on way back from the south pole Discovery of the 'Piltdown Man' – hoax, exposed in 1953

1913 Third Irish Home Rule Bill rejected by House of Lords – threat of civil war in Ireland – formation of Ulster Volunteers to oppose Home Rule Suffragette demonstrations in London – Mrs Pankhurst imprisoned Trade Union Act in Britain establishes the right to use Union funds for political purposes Panama Canal opened (1914?) Geiger invents his counter to measure radioactivity Stravinsky The Rite of Spring DH Lawrence Sons and Lovers Shaw Pygmalion

1914-1918 First World War (the "Great War")

1914 Jun 28: Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo Aug 4: Britain declares war on Germany, citing Belgian neutrality as reason Aug 5: British cableship Telconia cut through all five of Germany's undersea telegraph links to the outside world Oct-Nov: Battle of Ypres – beginning of trench warfare on western front First Zeppelin air raid on England Irish Home Rule Act provides for a separate Parliament in Ireland; the position of Ulster to be decided after the War James Joyce The Dubliners Chaplin and De Mille make their first films Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes Vaughan Williams London Symphony

1915 Feb: Submarine blockade of Britain starts Apr-May: Second Battle of Ypres – poison gas used for first time Apr 25: Gallipoli campaign starts May 7: Lucitania sunk by German submarine off coast of Ireland – 1,198 died Junkers construct first fighter aeroplane Coalition Government formed in Britain under Asquith First automatic telephone exchange in Britain Einstein General Theory of Relativity Buchan The Thirty-nine Steps

1916 Feb-Dec: Battle of Verdun – appalling losses on both sides, stalemate continues Apr 24: Easter Rising in Ireland – after the leaders are executed, public opinion backs independence May 31-Jun 1: Battle of Jutland – only major naval battle between the British and German fleets Jun 5: Sinking of HMS Hampshire and death of Kitchener Jul: Battle of the Somme – first use of tanks by Britain, but of limited effect – over 1 million casualties Dec 7: Lloyd-George becomes British Prime Minister of the coalition Compulsory military service introduced in Britain Kafka Metamorphosis Holst The Planets Jazz sweeps through America

1917 February revolution in Russia; Tsar Nicholas abdicates USA declares war on Germany Battle of Cambrai – first use of massed tanks, but effect more psychological than actual May 26: George V changes surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor Jul-Nov: Battle of Passchendaele – little gained by either side Oct 17: Trans-Australian railway line completed October Revolution in Russia – Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government; Lenin becomes Chief Commissar Balfour Declaration: Britain will support a Jewish state in Palestine Dec 9: British forces capture Jerusalem Ministry of Labour is established in Britain Daniel Jones English Pronouncing Dictionary

1918 Jul-Aug: Second Battle of the Marne: last major German offensive Nov 11: Armistice signed Vote for women over 30, men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons) Civil war in Ireland World-wide 'flu epidemic

Liam these a general facts and dates from both British and international history.